Showing posts with label Federal pay freeze. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Federal pay freeze. Show all posts

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Budget plan calls for extending pay freeze through 2015

Article Title: GOP budget plan extends federal pay freeze, changes retirement benefits

Snippet of Article: "...The Republican budget plan for fiscal 2013 calls for extending the federal pay freeze through 2015, increasing federal retirement contributions and cutting the federal workforce by 10 percent. ..."

Source: www.federalnewsradio.com Republican budget plan, Federal pay freeze, 2015 pay freeze,

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Federal Employee pay freeze for third year being considered

Article Title: Senators call for extending federal pay freeze for third year

Snippet of Article: "...Congress should freeze the pay of federal employees for a third year and retool calculations of their retirement benefits to help pay down the federal deficit, two senators responsible for federal personnel issues said Friday...."

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Friday, April 15, 2011

Republican budget cuts Federal Pay

Article Title: House passes bill that would cut fed pay, benefits

Snippet of Article: "...The House on Friday passed a Republican budget plan for fiscal 2012 that would freeze federal employees' step increases and pay raises for five years, cut the government's workforce by 10 percent, and require feds to pay much more into their pension plans...."

Source: www.federaltimes.com federal employee pay, Federal Pay Freeze, Federal Step Increase Freeze, Federal Job Cuts,

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Federal Worker Furloughs?

Article Title: Two GOP freshmen to handle federal worker issues

Snippet of Article: "...The future of federal pay and benefits could be especially contentious. President Obama last year ordered a two-year pay freeze for all federal employees, but the bipartisan deficit commission and several Republican lawmakers want to use a three-year pay freeze, furloughs and attrition to cut the government's payroll by billions of dollars in the next decade. ..."

Source: washingtonpost.com

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Federal employees strike back

Article Title: Federal employees strike back

Snippet of Article: "...A quick check of salary.com, for example, reveals that my private sector counterparts earn somewhere between 35 percent and 50 percent more than I do! What I can’t tell from my rudimentary research is whether they spend the same number of nights, weekends, holidays and special occasions away from their families...."

Source: www.gazette.com Federal Pay Freeze